The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-10-06


IDENTIFY been sadly neglected on these
two points. There is consolation in
knowing. however, that the Ameri-
can and English papers are nearly
as backward ns ourselves in these
respects. We all have much to
learn from our enlightened contem-
porary.
But in connection with this dis
covery the Gazette has got slightly
astray, for it says in reference TO
ourselves, Everything it can snatch
up from the columns of q foreign
paper regarding Hawaiian affairs is
rushed into its pages, without one
word of contradiction TO what every
body in Honolulu knows to be
utterly false" Now, this is little
outside of the straight line of truth.
The BULLETIN, as a matter of fact,
reproduces comparatively little of
the available matter from foreign
papers regarding Hawaiian affairs.
A small percentage of what has
come along from time to time we
have Enthusiastically of our
own choice, but more frequently by
request. If we put all in we should
have but little room for other matter.
We have occasionally reproduced for
the purpose of contradiction, where
the statements have been glarlngly
erroneous and injurious. But we
never yet had the disingenuonsness
to say that a statement, however in
furious, was lie, when we knew it
was not. Sometimes we have pub
lished extracts, containing slight in
aecuracies, believing them to have
been of general interest TO our
readers, and thinking them (the
readers) quite capable of eliminating
the errors. As to what has appeared
in the BULLETIN of comparative re-
cent date of this particular nature,
we have not an exact remembrance,
and are not sufficiently interested to
turn back and see. This much we
may say, however, in general way,
that we have noticed some errors in
termixed with a large amount of
truth. OF course, it would be folly
to publish this matter for the benefit
of local readers, for whose sole bene-
fit all reprint is intended, as none of
it goes into our foreign summary,
and then contradict what the Goa
zette" says Everybody in Honolulu
knows to be utterly false"
A few weeks ago we published a
short editorial article from the S. +.
"Chronicie," to which we believe
exception has been taken by the
Gazette" We had had the arti-
Gle in our possession several days,
and thought how remarkably near
accuracy the "Chronicle" had come
that time, but had no intention of
publishing it, until gentleman pro-
minent and influential in the Reform
movement stopped the editor in the
street, and enquired If he had seen
the article and intended to repro
duce it. The editor asked him if it
was true. "Yes," said the gentle
man, "every word of it," Here we
had our own judgment more than
corroborated, and forthwith pub.
lished the article, Some people do
not like the truth, and will often lie
to cover it.
A gentleman from the other islands
requested Us the other day to give
little more matter from foreign
papers about Hawaiian affairs, Civ
ing as his reason that he was parti-
cularly interested in knowing what
was said about us abroad, and as he
did not get the foreign papers him
self his only means of learning was
the BULLETIN. He did not care
whether the matter was true or false,
but he wanted to see it for himself.
He said that the Gazette" for
which he was a regular subscriber,
was too One-sided for his taste, and
and he could get nothing ON the
other side from it. That gentleman
will scarcely appreciate the new dis
coyery, and will probably put it
down as . bit of weak childish
twaddle, to be treated with ridicule,
as every experienced newspaper man
cannot fail to do.
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